Prepared by the National Academy of Sciences, the report suggests implications of the 25 percent cut in support of physics programs as possible loss of scientific supremacy, employment problems, and the abandonment of whole subfields of research. (CP)

Discusses the role of the Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory of the Massachusetts of Technology, and its significance in the world of research. Applications of research on magnetism to medicine are emphasized. (SA)

Describes the function of the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Its establishment and the interests of some of the researchers there, are discussed. (SA)

This report is excerpted from a much more extensive volume, entitled PHYSICS IN PERSPECTIVE, VOLUME 1, the final report of the Physics Survey Committee. The Physics Survey Committee was appointed by the President of the National Academy of Sciences in mid-1969 and charged with an examination of the status, opportunities, and problems of physics in…

Three issues are discussed that relate to (1) the need for the United States to become more technologically competitive and more daring in ways to produce, nurture and encourage high quality research and (2) the state of the talent pool that must produce the scientists, mathematicians and engineers to do this research. The first issue concerns…